Excerpt Chapter I: Stuff that looks like art but isn't art.

Chapter I (A Dark Age for the Arts) considers the great hunger in U.S. society to become famous, the role that art-related technology plays in helping to satiate that appetite and the power of the rule of "mass taste" to determine the cultural diet that consists primarily of nutrition-less stuff that looks like art but isn't art.

The following is an excerpt from Chapter I

What we don’t have are people that know they are starving, that have an aesthetic hunger making them value the nourishment of great art. But then, in many cultures, great music and literature isn’t something people do like in America; it is something they are. It is as necessary as air, water, and food. 

                                                                                    – Gary Funk